Got a trial key and played to level 13. What a boring assed game. Endless clickfest slog for loot in a fixed iso view, no fun at all. You geeks who crave nostalgia are ruining gaming.
Can you imagine if there had been no Diablo 1 and 2 released 12 years ago how well this game would have been recieved?
I did like the art direction though.

I picked up Kingdoms of Amalur and its quite the little gem. Combat is actually fun!

I never imagined Blizzard could destroy a series as badly as they did with Diablo 3. I uninstalled the game 3-4 weeks ago but still go to the D3 forums every day because it is more fun reading all the Blizz hate than it is playing the game.

A few months before the D3 release I made a few more D2 chars to play with to tie me over until D3. I was joining random games farming gear for my smiter when I joined a very special one... screen shaking "DIABLO WALKS THE EARTH" and all that jazz. Of the three people in the map at the time I manage to loot the Anni small charm . People who play D3 who never played D2 are lucky, it's not a ridiculous downgrade for them and they don't realize what they are missing out on or what D3 could have been.

Anyhow, it's all just my opinion (obviously). I'm just glad I got it through the annual pass rather than shell out $60. I don't think my expectations were too high either, they could have taken D2:LOD and just remade it with the current graphics engine and I would have been happy. I'll try not to be so negative in this thread since some people still enjoy the game.

Folks, in the end it is just a game. Think of it as a challenge. Start a new char and don't use any AH gear, only what you get from drops. No cheating with gems either! Anyway, I am going to take my own advice and roll a fresh char and see how that goes for me... I like the idea :)

Folks, in the end it is just a game. Think of it as a challenge. Start a new char and don't use any AH gear, only what you get from drops. No cheating with gems either! Anyway, I am going to take my own advice and roll a fresh char and see how that goes for me... I like the idea :)

That's what we've been doing from day one. Only "extra" gear we've gotten was recently from Sagath emptying part of his stash to allow us to have some better gear.